In the fall of 2007 two major hurricanes hit the Gulf of Mexico and tipped moored oil rigs. As a result of this, the rig‘s mooring systems were redesigned to address the severity of these storms and provide an increased level of safety to keep the rigs afloat. The world‘s leading provider of mooring systems approached Eagle Alloy, Inc. to produce the redesigned mooring socket, part of the oil rig mooring system.